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Re: Flying
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2006, 07:20:57 PM »
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This bike is featured in the December 2006 issue of American Iron.
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Re: Flying
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2006, 07:57:26 PM »
Ed,
    The subject is indeed in the right place because it is a cruel joke what has become of the entreprenurial spirit this country was founded on. Government regulations, insurance companies and lawyers have all but killed the age of invention as far as mechanical things are concerned. I believe that is a small part of our relationship with our Harley-Davidson motorcycles. As we throw a leg over the seat, turn the switch and push the starter button, how far are we truly from Bill Harley and the four Davidson brothers. ? Not so far as to have forgotten what it meant at the beginning. Just as you looked up the Spirit of St. Louis and remembered that story about Lindberg so do I each time I ride remember that small wooden shed in Milwaukee. And perhaps at the end of the day, finding something to reflect on in a place intended for humor is not a bad thing. This thread has made me smile if not laugh.

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Re: Flying
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2006, 08:25:16 PM »
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Air and Space museum in DC.


Ed, there are a couple of A&S exhibits I've had an almost spiritual reaction too.
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Re: Flying
« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2006, 09:02:58 PM »
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Re: Flying
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2006, 07:02:58 AM »
Brian, Twolane and D00d,

The SR-71 is one of my favorites, the last super sonic plane designed using a slide rule, pre-cumputer. Amazing to think of when considering the speed and altitude records it set before it was retired. Interesting too is that my fascination has nothing to do with striking power or dropping bombs but the machine itself. The ability to move through the air, to function, to maneuver. Somebody came up with an idea and built it and it worked. The A-10, F-15,16,18, a Chinook or the X-1 Glorious Glennis.

Brian I think that there is a certain part of this group that was born in the wrong time, we need another age of invention. Somehow with all the PC's and cell phones and technologies we seem to have lost something. Look at the brass clock escapments made by hand in the 17 & 1800's or the invention of the chronograph, we couldn't really navigate the globe till 1763. Chit! that's only 243 years ago!

The lunar landings and machines used in the space program too have always been of interest. A couple of years ago when they found the Liberty Bell, I couldn't take my eyes off the TV, what a discovery to get it back.

On a machine a little closer to home, I found an old open frame motor several months ago at an old school we're working in Worcester. It still had the 4" wide leather belt connected to a fan housing used the bring fresh air into the school. The motor was in one room and the belt ran through a hole in the wall to get into the other rooom where the drive pulley was located. The old soft starter was still powered and mounted on the wall all open wired, very dangerous by todays standards. But after 80 years or so was ready to run. Something is missing from what's made today.

We say that Harley's have souls, I think we give them that after we  own them after we change them into what we want them to be. I feel there was a time when the soul was installed when it came out of the factory.

Just some food for thought on a rainy Monday morning here in New England.


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Re: Flying
« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2006, 07:33:35 PM »
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Re: Flying
« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2006, 07:34:32 PM »
EAA Museum at Oshkosh.

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Re: Flying
« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2006, 07:35:29 PM »
EAA Museum at Oshkosh
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Re: Flying
« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2006, 07:36:45 PM »
EAA Museum at Oshkosh.

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Re: Flying
« Reply #24 on: November 17, 2006, 07:39:43 PM »
In another life, 1984ish, I had the pleasure of riding a 41 model Twin Beech. This machine had a couple of Pratt & Whitney 985
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Re: Flying
« Reply #25 on: November 17, 2006, 07:41:15 PM »
No frills flight!

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Re: Flying
« Reply #26 on: November 17, 2006, 08:00:58 PM »
The SR-71 (Blackbird) was the first project that my dad worked on right out of RPI.  I guess he worked on the primary compressor stage of the engines (he started at Pratt & Whitney).  One lesser known facts about this really cool plane is that they flew so high,  and at the time technology was not yet invented to prevent,  but the feul tanks leaked (by design) when on the ground.......I'd a been a little nervous about jet fuel leaking where you fire up a jet engine....JMHO.

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Re: Flying
« Reply #27 on: November 17, 2006, 09:16:40 PM »
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The SR-71 (Blackbird) was the first project that my dad worked on right out of RPI.
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